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ENWR 1510: Writing about Monsters

Research guide for Cameron Berry's Fall 2024 ENWR 1510 class on writing about monsters.

Style Manuals & Citation Help

MLA style is a popular citation style for English language and literature, but it is not the only one. Some professors (or publishers, if you are writing an article to be published) may prefer a different style, such as Chicago style, so always check before you format and submit your work. 

Sample Citations in MLA Style

Scholarly Article Citation

General Format:  

Author (last name, first name). "Title of Article." Journal Title, volume number (vol. #), issue number (no. #), year, pages (pp. #-#). 

Example: 
Hoeveler, Diane Long. “Gothic Chapbooks and the Urban Reader.” The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 41, no. 3, 2010, pp. 155–58.
 

Essay in an Edited Book

General Format: 

Essay Author (last name, first name). "Title of Essay." Title of Book Collection, edited by Name of Editor(s), Publisher, year, pages (pp. #-#). 

Example: 
Potter, Franz. “Chapbooks, Pamphlets, and Forgotten Horrors.” The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, edited by Clive Bloom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 27–38.

Sample In-Text Citations MLA style

General in-text citation: (Author page number(s))

Example: (Hoeveler 155). 

If I have more than one article by Hoeveler in my Works cited, I would add part of the title (to identify to which workyou are referring): 

Example: (Hoeveler, "Gothic Chapbooks" 155). 

When citing an essay from a book collection, use the essay author in the citation (not the editor(s) name(s)). 

Citation after quotation:  "Here is my quotation" (cite). 

Example: According to Hoeveler, "One cannot discuss the gothic chapbook phenomenon without also briefly addressing the development of the circulating library" (156). 

Or paraphrase of information (cite). 

Example: The growth of gothic chapbooks is tied closely to the establishment of circulating libraries (Hoeveler 156).